Profoundest Quotes

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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be… — Griffith John
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially… — Emanuel Lasker
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even… — Willard Van Orman Quine
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed. — John Updike
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers. — Jacquetta Hawkes
If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that… — Kedar Joshi
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the… — Theodore T. Munger
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. — Charles W. Chesnutt
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest… — Franz Marc
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations. — Edward McKendree Bounds
We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have… — Will Tuttle
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass… — Bertrand Russell
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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